Downunderwonder

How small is small? Don't tell them it's a 4hr monster set?

Worst amp I ever heard would have to be a 20 year old Ashdown stack when brand new. I gather the blue speakers were the problem. I think I would rather stay home than have that as my sound. Murky and not very loud.

Basically there is no economic packing method that can ensure a duckwit can't break it throwing it out the back of the truck. Crating it makes it too heavy, cardboard yields. Best to have the buyer use one of the carriers that offers packaging. You can make a 'pretty safe' box by strategically cutting up a car windscreen shipping box and recombining the pieces. It's getting a bit late for doing a how to but I could have a go tomorrow if you're interested.

There was a guy who sold some rare fancy bass to US not so long ago. He did the hands off shipping with DHL like Gwilym did. It came unstuck at the US end still required multiple phone calls to various outposts but all resolved. Much less stressful that way for sure than being the one in the hot seat. Bonus points for being an excellent scam artist filter. Just be sure to be paid direct by bank transfer and be aware your bank will be taking a fee off your end.

You can't be reading / absorbing too many thread titles if you didn't know about all the amp delivery schedule setbacks and even Mesa abandoning the European market for the meantime.

Do you get gain lights but the amp is quieter? Or do you fail to get the red light to go off with heavy playing? Tube or SS or both? Could even be a dud cable or pickup or your bass preamp or battery. In these cases it helps to report all the troubleshooting you already did so we can get to 'busted amp' legitimately. Half the time it is something else.

If you find a cheaper source of "ICEpower" boards you will be buying a knockoff. They are a little bit cunning and charge plenty.

Was there a cable in the amp input with no bass, or not?

How about the cable? If no cable plugged in then there has to be something gone very wrong in either your wiring or environmental RF load. If the latter I wouldn't want to be living there!!

I advise adopting a 'Beverage Free Zone' policy of zero tolerance to drummer et al beverages being set down on your amplification. It will hold you in good stead. A beer will never be spilt on an amp if it's never left on an amp.

The Peavey looks to have lead an easy life.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/459896-buzz-be-gone/ Touching the string making it go away is a good clue.

Put it all back how it was before the upgrade. See if the noise goes away. Then you can troubleshoot one thing at a time. One time I added some new pedals and an old pedal started to be noisy when it was on, even when the newbiea were off. Some pedals just don't like other pedals. It was suggested to me that I needed a proper isolated power supply for each but I never found one that worked as advertised. The old pedal lost instead as the new one that turned out to be the secret agitator was so sexy and there were plenty of alternatives for the old one. Put it all back as it was before and change one thing at a time.

I'll never forget the guttural roar that came back at us when the half cut crowd realised we were opening with Born to be Wild.

Who was S. Cadorina?

The term comes from the days of yore when mixers were built up in rows of channels that came in literal strip units. You could pull one 'channel strip' out for repair independently of the unit operating. I guess more than a few got repurposed.

For my money I'd file down a few at a time until they did fit.

Hmmm 9.03mm <<< 10.0mm, not going to fit?

Played a bunch of Markbass single 12 combo backlines but always with FOH bass. I'd give it a solid maybe for standalone duty.

The rehearsal room has a lovely warm bass support to it like the sun streaming in your window. So much so that I have to turn down the low end. Then I set up somewhere else and wonder where all the bass went.

It's not derailment when it's all about tube watts, merits or otherwise. I got on fine with my 50w but it wasn't worth the fight to get my cab mic'd, even bringing my own mic.

Nothing to detract from your unusual all good non gigging band experience but you're way off in left field when it comes to the general band with a couple of closet non giggers in it wasting everyone else's time.

Where's the spell checker when you actually need one?

There's some new legislation afoot here that 'compels stuff to be fixable'. Don't ask me how they are going to do that but I would think making schematics available would be a good 1st step. People are getting fed up with appliances that fail after a couple of years of household use and ''can't be repaired''. The Greenies saw an opportunity to score and 'dial back time' to when stuff was made to last, so to speak, instead of landfill. A bit of a pipedream but my Mum had the same vaccum cleaner for 25 years, overhauled when required, and I must have gone through 4 in that amount of time, so all power to them.